The government has rejected TRAI’s proposal that stand-alone tower companies be made to share a certain percentage of their revenue with the government.

The government has rejected TRAI’s proposal that stand-alone tower companies be made to share a certain percentage of their revenue with the government. A possible reason for rejecting the proposal is that an independent study conducted by the regulator had established that despite operators hiving off their tower businesses into separate companies, there has been little impact on the government’s revenues. TRAI had earlier argued that a licence fee was called for, as it believed the government was losing out financially.